TWEPP-08 Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics

Session

Parallel Session A5 - Installation & Commissioning

A5

17 Sept 2008, 14:15

Naxos - GREECE

36. The LHCb Silicon Tracker: lessons learned (so far)

Dr Achim Vollhardt (Universitat Zurich)

17/09/2008, 14:15

Oral

The LHCb Silicon Tracker is part of the main tracking system of the LHCb detector. It covers the full acceptance angle in front of the dipole magnet in the Trigger Tracker station and the innermost part in the three Inner Tracker stations downstream of the magnet. We report on final elements of the production, the installation and commissioning process in the experiment. Focusing on...

62. SCT Commissioning

Mrs Caroline Magrath (Radboud University,)

17/09/2008, 14:40

Oral

The Barrel and EndCaps of the ATLAS SemiConductor Tracker have been installed in the ATLAS cavern since summer 2007. All the electrical and optical services were connected and rapid tests performed to verify their continuity. Problems with the cooling circuits, meant that the time for detailed tests in 2007 was limited. These problems have now been resolved allowing the SCT to be operated and...

94. Studies of the Assembled CMS Tracker

Mr Pieter Everaerts (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

17/09/2008, 15:05

Oral

During the latter months of 2006 and the first half of 2007, the CMS Tracker was assembled and operated at the Tracker Integration Facility in Building 186 at CERN. During this time, several dedicated studies were carried out to validate the performance of the tracker after assembly, testing general noise performance, potential interference between subdetectors, and performance at high...

73. CMS Tracker Services: present status and potential for upgrade

Mr Robert Stringer (Department of Physics - University of California)

17/09/2008, 15:30

Oral

A report is given on the completed programme of installation, connection and testing of the CMS Tracker services, culminating in the full checkout of the Tracker as an integrated system. Finally, in the context of future upgrades to the CMS Tracker, we report also on the potential capacity and constraints of re-using the current services.

35. The electronics of ALICE Dimuon tracking chambers

Dr Valerie Chambert (IPN Orsay)

17/09/2008, 16:15

Oral

The Alice Muon Spectrometer tracking system is composed of five stations (ST) with two wires chambers each. IPN Orsay is responsible for the electronics design and production for the tracking (1.1M channels), for the readout electronics software and for the ST1 design and building. We will describe the readout architecture based on dedicated Front-End boards, embedded digital crates, and a...

66. Readout Electronics of the ATLAS Cathode Strip Chambers

Ivo Gough Eschrich (UC Irvine)

17/09/2008, 16:40

Oral

The ATLAS muon spectrometer employs cathode strip chambers (CSC) to measure high momentum muons in the forward regions (2.1 < |\eta| < 2.7). Due to the severe radiation levels expected in this environment, the on-detector electronics are limited to amplifying and digitizing the signal while sparsification, event building and other tasks are performed off-detector. We report on the...

79. Design and commissioning of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer RPC Read Out Driver

Dr Vincenzo Izzo (Universita di Napoli Federico II and INFN, sez. di Napoli)

17/09/2008, 17:05

Oral

The RPC subsystem of the ATLAS muon spectrometer provides the Level-1 trigger in the barrel and it is read out by a specific DAQ system. On-detector electronics pack the RPC data in frames, tagged with an event number assigned by the trigger logic, and transmit them to the counting room on optical fibre. Data from each sector are then routed together to a Read-Out Driver (ROD) board. This is a...